This book uses an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach to study everyday life in secondary schools in London and Helsinki. Employing a metaphor of... Læs mere
Section 2 addresses law of the sea and governance issues, and includes studies on Greece and the law of the sea, maritime boundaries... Læs mere
Drawing on her experience as a leading advocate for a more responsive workplace, she demonstrates how companies can organize for profit, productivity, and the desire of workers for a more rewarding quality of life.
This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Lawrence Driscoll's fresh examination of the meaning of drugs from the Victorians to the present asks us to listen to historical and current voices whose positions on drugs are at variance with our "truths."
This study considers writing by Caribbean women, such as the slave narrative of Mary Prince and the autobiography of Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole, and works by women whose travels to the Caribbean had enormous impacts on their own lives, such as Aphra Behn and Zora Neale Hurston.
The contributors reinterpret the lives of the famous such as George Antonius and Doria Shafiq and rediscover the lives of... Læs mere
The Spanish expression - la cultura cura (culture heals) - is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people.
They also examine why it is essential to take on the sources of 'mass public education.' Academia needs to understand that the popular press and... Læs mere
The contributors to this volume take a hard look at Roosevelt's reaction to the Holocaust.
Focus on People and Migration paints a comprehensive picture of the UK's population, both now and in the future. It then focuses on the age structure of the UK population,... Læs mere
This edition of Shakespeare s The Merchant of Venice reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by four sets of thematically arranged primary... Læs mere